Synchronizing device for addressing and stamp-affixing machines.



S. A. ANDERSON. SYNGHRONIZING DEVICE FOR ADDRESSING AND STAMP APFIXING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 5, 1913.

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Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

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SYNGHRONIZING DEVICE FOR ADDRESSING AND STAMP AFPIXING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED APR.5, 1913.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914.

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SYNCHRONIZING DEVICE FOR ADDRESSING AND STAMP AFFIXING MACHINES.

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SIDNEY A. ANDERSON, OF JERSEY CITY, NEV JERSEY.

SYNCHRONIZING DEVICE FOR. ADDRESSING AND STAMP-AFFIXING MACHINES.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SIDNEY A. ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Synchronizing Device for Addressing and Stamp-Atfixing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

lily invention relates to a device which can be attached to an addressing machine to operate a stamp-affixing machine, so that an envelop may be stamped simultaneously with the putting on of the address.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a multipost stamp-aflixing machine in out-line and so much of an Elliott addressing machine as is necessary to illustrate my invention.

Figure l is a front elevation; Fig. 2 is a plan; Fig. 3 is a right sectional elevation on the line 3-3 and Fig. & is an enlarged cross section on the line 1%.

In the addressing machine there is a base or table 1 on which is mounted a horizontal rocking member 2, to which is attached a depending arm 3, by means of which a rocking movement is obtained. An ink roll at is mounted between the forward ends of a pair of arms 5 which extend forward from the rocker 2. The stencils 6 are carried through the machine in a pair of guide rails T. The position of an envelop when being addressed is indicated by the dotted line 8 in Fig. 2. When one of the stencils 6 is directly under the roll '4. the arm 3 is moved to the position indicated by dotted line in Fig. 23, causing the roll to descend and to print the address on the envelop through the stencil.

My device comprises an Lshaped upright or standard 9, secured by a bolt 10 to the base 1. O thi upright is mounted a slide 11 which is secured by clips 12. On the front of the slide there is a bracket 13 which has a horizontal portion 1 1, to the top side of which is secured an arm 15 which has a slot 16a knurled clamp screw 17 passing through the slot to hold the arm firmly. To the rear end of the arm 15 I secure, by means of a nut 18, the stem 19 of the stamp-affixing machine 20. The detailed construction of the stamp-aflixing device is not shown; suffice it to say that it operates in a manner similar to an ordinary numbering machine. On depressing the stem, the body of the machine is seated on the envelop and a further downward movement of the stem causes a Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 5, 1913.

Patented Mar. 31, 1914. Serial No. 759,052.

stamp to be cut off and aflixed to the envelop. A reservoir 21 has been added so that a supply of water can be put in without detaching the machine from its holding arm 15.

The slide 11 is rcciprocated by an arm 22, the rear end of which is secured by a pair of clamping yokcs 23 to the rocker 2. Attachment is made to the slide 11 near the front end of the arm 22 by means of a spring 24. The slide 11 has a pin 25 which is normally held against the upper edge of the arm 22 by the spring 24.. A safety pin 26 is placed in the lower end of the slide 11 a little distance from the lower edge of the arm 22, to prevent unduly stretching the spring.

It is evident from the foregoing construction that as the rocker 2 is rocked to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3, the slide 11 will be moved downward and that the stamp-affixing machine 20 will be seated on the bed 1, and that, if an envelop be placed in position on the bed a stamp will be aliixed thereon. The spring 24K is to make provision for thick or thin envelope and for a pile of envclops and the movement is so arranged that the arm 22 will leave the pin 25 slightly on every downward stroke, thereby giving a slight dwell to the stamp-affixing machine. The slot 16 in the arm 15 permits of the stainp-atfixing machine being adjusted over a limited area so as to accommodate different sizes of envelops.

No drilling or machine work is necessary in attaching my device to the addressing machine in the first place-the hole for the screw 10 being already in the machine. It is easily detached, by loosening either of the knurled screws or nuts, or by removing the supporting standard, in case it is desired to use the addressing machine without affixing stamps. By using my device the time of an operator to put on the stamps is entirely saved.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a. mechanism for synchronizing an addressing .machine with a stamp-affixing device, the combination of the following elements: a standard secured to the bed of said addressing machine; a slide adapted to reciprocate on said standard; means for securing said stamp-aiiixing device to said slide and means for simultaneously operatin said addressing machine and reciprocating said slide.

2. An addressing machine having an inking device, in combination with a stamp-affixing device; means for securing said stampafiixing device to said addressing machine, which means holds said device to and permits of a reciprocating movement to and from said addressing machine; and means for simultaneously operating said inking and stamp-aiiixing devices.

3. In a synchronizing mechanism for an addressing machine and a stamp-affixing clevice, the combination of the following elements: a standard secured to said addressing machine; a slide adapted to reciprocate 011 said standard; an arm secured to said slide and adapted to support said stampaflixing device; a movable arm adapted to reciprocate said slide-said arm being yieldingly attached to said slide.

a. In a synchronizing mechanism for an addressing machine and a stamp-affixing device, the combination of the following ele ments: a standard secured to said addressing machine; a slide adapted to reciprocate on said standard; an arm secured to said slide and adapted to hold said stamp-affixing devicesaid arm being adjustably secured to said slide, whereby said stampaffixing device may be universally adjusted in a horizontal plane; and means for recip- .h

rocating said slide to operate said stampaflixing device simultaneously with the operation of said addressing machine.

An addressing machine having an inking device and a member adapted to rock on a horizontal axis to operate said inking device; in combination with a standard secured to said addressing machine; a slide mounted on and adapted to reciprocate on said standard; a stamp-atlixing device; connections between said slide and said stampattixing device; an arm clamped to said rocking member and a spring connecting the outer or free end of said arm to said slide.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIDNEY A. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

E. J. KING, JoHJ W. STOUT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

